Desktop Tips

Tip #681

March 28, 2025

Usually, when you want to close a tab, you first need to hover over the tab on the Tab Bar to make the close button visible. But in Vivaldi, there’s a way you can always display the X on the tab for quick closing.

To always display the close button on all tabs:

1. Go to Settings > Tabs > Tab Display > Tab Options.
2. Enable “Permanently” under “Display Close Button”.

Tip #680

March 27, 2025

In Vivaldi, you can connect to Proton VPN without any extra hassle using your Vivaldi account, giving you a more private and secure browsing experience.

To get started:

1. Click the ”VPN” button on the right side of the Address Bar.
2. Log in to your Vivaldi account or to your Proton account.
3. Click “Connect”.

Tip #677

March 24, 2025

Did you receive an email with tickets to an event, an assignment you need to complete, or something else that you need to keep track of? There’s a super easy way in Vivaldi Mail to turn any email into an event or task in the Vivaldi Calendar.

To create a new event from an email message:

1. Right-click on a message in the Mail list or on the open message itself.
2. Select “Add to Calendar”.
3. Choose whether to add the message as an event, task, or invite*.

By the way, it also works with Feeds’ posts and selected text on a web page.

*Adds email recipients as invitees to the event.

Tip #674

March 19, 2025

The Currency widget makes it easy to convert one currency into another, as well as follow the changes in exchange rates over time.

To add the Currency Widget:

1. Go to the Dashboard on the Start Page.
2. Click “Add a Widget” at the bottom of the window.
3. Select “Currency”.

Tip #673

March 18, 2025

Vivaldi Mail makes managing multiple mail accounts a joy. But not all accounts are equally important. You probably want your main accounts to be at the top of the Mail Panel‘s All Accounts list, while the less frequently used ones can take their place at the bottom.

To reorder mail accounts:

1. Go to Settings > Mail > Mail Accounts.
2. Select the account you want to move.
3. Click on the up and down arrows below the list of accounts to move the selected account.

Tip #672

March 17, 2025

Should the date be written as day-month-year or month-day-year? Does the week start with a Sunday or a Monday? In Vivaldi, you can decide how dates should be displayed in the browser.

To review date and time settings:

1. Go to Settings > General > Language > Preferred Date & Time Format.
2. Choose whether to follow your operating system’s settings or the browser’s language.
3. Additionally, choose what day the week should start with and which week to count as the first one of the year.

Tip #670

March 13, 2025

Many of Vivaldi’s key features can be accessed from the Panels sidebar on the side of the browser window. Though we hope you find them all useful, there likely are some that you hardly ever use. If that’s the case, why not hide the panel buttons for a cleaner view allowing you to reach the Panels you do use faster?

To hide Panels:

1. Locate an unused panel on the sidebar.
2. Right-click on its button.
3. Select “Remove from Toolbar”.

To bring a button back, go to the main Vivaldi menu > View > Customize Toolbar > Panel and drag the button back to the sidebar.

Tip #668

March 11, 2025

Which is more important to you – event length or that it ends at the set time even when the start time changes? Whatever your preference, Vivaldi Calendar comes with a setting to cater to both needs.

To review the setting:

1. Go to Settings > Calendar > Calendar Settings > Calendar Editing > Auto Adjust End Time.
2. Choose between:
   • Always, i.e. push the end time forward,
   • Never, i.e. keep the same end time,
   • Adjust the end time, except for all-day events.

Tip #666

March 7, 2025

In Vivaldi there’s no need to jump back and forth between tabs – Tab Tiling allows you to view several tabs at the same time in a split-screen view. Depending on your tab order and the layout of the web pages, the grid view might not work out of the box, so it’s necessary to adjust the view by resizing the tiles (see Tip #47) and by reordering the tabs in the tiled view.

To reorder tiled tabs:

1. Click on a tab you want to move and hold down the mouse button.
2. Drag the tab to a different location on the Tab Bar.
3. Repeat with the other tiled tabs until all tiled tabs are where you want them.

Tip #663

March 4, 2025

In Vivaldi, you can customize aspects you might have not even known could be customized, for example, on the Tab Bar.

To hide the Synced and Closed Tabs buttons:

1. Go to Settings > Tabs > Tab Display > Tab Bar.
2. Disable “Display Trash Can” and/or “Display Synced Tabs Button”.

Please note that to open tabs sent from other synced devices using the “Send to Device” feature you need to have the Synced Tabs button enabled.

To hide the Workspaces menu:

1. Go to Settings > Tabs > Workspaces.
2. Disable “Show Workspaces in the Tab Bar”.

When the Tab Bar buttons have been hidden, you can access your Workspaces, and Synced and Closed Tabs from the Windows Panel.

To move the menu and window control buttons (minimize, maximize, close):

1. Go to Settings > Appearance > Menu > Menu Position.
2. Select “Horizontal”.

This will move the menu and window control buttons to their own toolbar.

Tip #662

March 3, 2025

If you’re a fan of using Vivaldi with your keyboard, you’re probably familiar with Ctrl/⌘ + L and Ctrl/⌘ + C shortcuts for copying the link of the web page you have open in the active tab. By using Command Chains, you can merge them into a single shortcut.

To create a chain for copying page links:

1. Go to Settings > Quick Commands  > Command Chains.
2. Add a new chain with the following commands.
   • Focus Address Field
   • Delay (1000)
   • Copy
3. Go to Settings > Keyboard > Chains.
4. Find your new chain and give it a new keyboard shortcut.

In addition, you can create a Mouse Gesture for the command, trigger it via Quick Commands, and add a button to the browser’s toolbars.

Tip #661

February 28, 2025

When it’s your first time using a Private Window in Vivaldi, it’s good to be educated about what it actually entails. In Vivaldi, browsing in a Private Window means that searches, sites visited, cookies, and temporary files won’t be stored by Vivaldi. It does not encrypt or otherwise modify your connection.

That’s why you’ll see an introduction whenever you open a new Private Window. If you regularly browse in Private Windows, this information is already known to you. That’s why you can hide it and display your preferred New Tab Page, such as Speed Dials or the Dashboard instead.

To hide the introduction:

Option 1

1. Open a new Private Window.
2. Tick the box “Do Not Show Introduction Again”.

Option 2

1. Go to Settings > Privacy and Security > Private Windows.
2. Disable “Show Introduction”.